The Toilette of Venus, 1751, Oil on canvas, 42 5/8 x 33 1/2 in. (108. 3 x 85. 1 cm), Paintings, Francois Boucher (French, Paris 1703?1770 Paris), Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV, admired Boucher and was his patroness from 1747 until her death in 1764. This famous work was commissioned for the dressing room at Bellevue, her ch璽teau near Paris